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::::What is the next features project for communication after Flow?
::::Thanks, --<font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#000000">[[User:Pine|<font color="#01796F"><b>Pine</b></font>]][[User talk:Pine|<font color="#01796F"><sup>✉</sup></font>]]</font> 05:28, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::The answer to "what is the next features project for communication after Flow" is "there is none." Ultimately, Flow will encompass global communication - in fact, that is a ''core feature'' of the product: cross-wiki communication and subscriptions. When fully functional, Flow will eliminate the need for a newsletter extension or global watchlist events on discussions. The idea of a "global watchlist" will then apply only to content pages, and ''that'' feature is so low on the priority list that you should assume that it won't be tackled by the Foundation until at least 2016 or later. Aside from that, there's an issue of technology prioritization: any "global" communication technology will be based on GlobalProfile, whose cross-wiki functionality will be based on Flow technology.
:::::Now, it is entirely possible that there exists some (very) small splinter group of engineers and designers within the Foundation who are somehow developing some sort of global communications software without having talked to the product or design teams and may just spring it on everyone. I don't think that's the case, though: a big part of my job is having insight into what is going on across the board. And it's entirely possible that a volunteer development team has built something, or could build something, that does this. But even if that happened, that technology would have to be vetted against our product plan, which has been pretty solid since on or about the second week of March, 2012 (which is when we set down the plan) and how badly it would disrupt us or if it would even work with the roadmap.
:::::Basically, I'm saying: No, global watchlists are not on the plan. They would be a distraction from the plan.--[[User:Jorm (WMF)|Jorm (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Jorm (WMF)|talk]]) 06:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
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